marijuana budtender

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inventory specialist

Schwazze

Schwazze will overwork you, burn you out and expect you to take on tasks outside of your job description but it’s still never enough, they’re always pushing their employees to produce more dollars and do more work. You will be expected to work during PTO, weekends and sometimes until early hours of the morning just to get projects done because they give extremely unrealistic timelines due to leadership having no idea what they’re doing. They’ll deny requests for raises for the tenured employees who work hard and go above and beyond (doing 3 people’s work loads for an extremely below average salary), withhold or sabotage bonuses for the employees actually making all of the money in the field so that the executives can take a nice big bonus at the end of each quarter plus their yearly 6-figure bonus. If you do get a raise, it’s insultingly low. They claim to “hire from within” but won’t inform existing employees that a higher level position is available, they’ll just hire somebody with zero cannabis or relative experience instead. As long as you put in 60-70 hours a week for them and have no life outside of work, you MIGHT get SOME recognition.. but don’t count on it. Systems and SOP’s are non-existent, extremely disorganized, poor communication from leadership and lots of drama and shady business practices. Stay away from this sinking ship unless you enjoy having a carrot dangled in front of your face and empty promises.

Schwazze has one goal- making money. They will do whatever it takes to make their bottom line look better to investors(it’s not working they are at an all time low and continue to bottom out). They will deny pay raises to worthy employees. They will do mass layoffs seemingly at random and fire tenured employees to replace them with cheaper labor. The people who do stay end up doing the work load of 5-6 people for no additional  pay.  There is no hope of moving up in this company any longer as the new management team relies heavily on nepotism and favoritism and brings in their friends (who have less knowledge) to positions that others have earned.

There are no standard SOPs and operational expectations change on the weekly making it almost impossible to get anything done. The whole company is a rotating cast of characters with no communication on who quit this week and who they were replaced with.  

Work life balance doesn’t exist if you are in any management role and entry levels are pretty much expected to always be on call to cover the constant open shifts. 

Bonuses with this company are just carrots they dangle in front of you. Don’t expect to get them. This place used to be good. However all the people that made it good have long since left and been replaced by corporate overlords with no heart or interest in cannabis. 


Look elsewhere.  You don’t want to work for the money hungry corporate disaster that is Schwazze.  

I have experienced several issues at work. The store hours were extended which led to a reduction in employee hours without appropriate compensation. We were told that our tips would make up for the decreased income but these tips are inconsistent and are taxed. The leadership shows favoritism and handles incidents in favor of the company. Due to the acquisition of another company, many experienced employees were laid off to make way for cheaper and less experienced staff.

Additionally, since the legalization of recreational cannabis, the focus has shifted from caring for medical patients to catering to the mainstream market. The quality of the products provided by the company does not justify the high prices, and I often choose to shop elsewhere despite being an employee.

Our voices as employees are not heard, and participating in company surveys has not led to any improvements. The company's attempt to inflate its ratings by pushing employees to leave positive reviews is misleading.

We are frequently deceived, receive insignificant pay raises, and face challenging work-life balance. It is disheartening that the corporate management does not acknowledge the financial strains faced by employees. The benefits offered do not outweigh the drawbacks.

Overall, I would not recommend working here if you value your time, family, work ethics, morals, and mental health.

I spent two years with Schwazze, during which I witnessed several concerning patterns within the organization. 

Firstly, despite my dedicated service and contributions to the team, I never received a raise during my tenure. This lack of recognition for my efforts was disappointing and demotivating.

Additionally, the management at Schwazze seemed to play favorites, which created an unfair and biased work environment. Opportunities for advancement appeared to be based more on personal relationships rather than merit or performance.

Furthermore, the ordering process at Schwazze was disorganized and chaotic, leading to inefficiencies and frustration among employees. This lack of streamlined procedures hindered productivity and added unnecessary stress to daily operations.

Perhaps most concerning was the promotion of individuals who did not demonstrate the same level of dedication or work ethic as myself. It was disheartening to see individuals promoted over me despite putting in less than half the effort and not deserving the recognition.

Overall, my experience at Schwazze was marred by these issues, and I believe there is significant room for improvement in terms of fairness, organization, and recognition of employee contributions within the company. 

Manegement and leads dont have an idea on what is happening most of the time, they don’t value their employees, they inform very little on changes leaving their employees in the dark. Explotation is an understatement. Breaks are short and they cut them shorter if “necessary”. Employee has to keep sale numbers high when prices are already high af (on a HIGH volume store) having costumers get rude about it and the micromanagement its overwhelming. No oportunity to grow fairly, they will pick the most incompetent employee for grow oportunity because they are manipulative. Not a full time job. They say they have snacks but they are mostly never available. Will fire some employees for dumb things and keep other employees who broke hard rules around. Personal relationships between employees and manegement are allowed, with preference treatment. If and employee feels uncomfortable about any situation inside the job site nobody from management will back them up. Overall poor manegement from top to bottom, no care for the employee, disrespectful enviroment felt back in high school, hypocrit leadership, no growth oportunity and more! 

What's there not to like?! Corporate overlords, poor upper management, no raises or bonuses (or unrealistic goals for a raise or bonus), mentally unhealthy work environment, horrible marketing (left up to the store management for the most part), managers of the stores cannot manage due to the corporate oversight and micromanagement occurring. What's there not to love. Basically all of the things you hate about working for a company are present at Schwazze (aka Starbuds, Emerald Fields or Standing Akimbo). Run very fast and far from this company. If you do go with them, stay as a budtender only, you will regret any position higher than that with this company. Schwazze is the type if business that is ruining the mj industry. Over priced product and just simply no care at all for the customers or employees. I could by mj cheaper at competitors than I could through a Schwazze store with the employee 30% discount. You have been WARNED! 

Worked with this company for over a year and watched it crumble before my eyes. The beginning days were great, friendly faces and good conversations with a few employees, then as the job progressed things took a turn for the worse. You will be overworked and underpaid for the daily tasks you are assigned. If you talk to management about a raise or company concerns they may blow smoke your a** and make you feel as if something is coming soon. It never will. The management crew would rather sit in the offices on their phones and talk amongst their entitled and privileged selves than actually helping you complete any of the daily tasks at hand. Any problem with the company you have will be brushed off and ignored and your problem may be a big laugh to the management crew at hand. This company is crooked and selfish, only looking out for its overpaid employees and management full of entitled bigots.

Schwazze is the worst company I've ever worked for and I worked at Walmart so that should say a lot! Their CEO  and upper tier employees don't care about their employees all they truly care about is lining their own pockets and they don't care who they step on to achieve that, they would rather charge top dollar for product thats no worth the price than be competitive with other dispensaries that sell their product at a lower cost. Than they are  confused on why they can't sell their products seriously one of the biggest clown shows I've been part of, don't get me wrong the people I worked with on a day to day basis were amazing, but this company schwazze is straight garbage and I truly hope they fail miserably, schwazze has cost a lot people their livelihood its despicable that they're able to continue their horrible business practices 

If you truly enjoy not being valued as a human being and love just being a number please apply here! 
Management is useless and corporate even worse! 
Typical work day is a drag because they drove all traffic out of their stores by spiking prices and hound you for loyalty sign ups thinking that’s gonna fix it but they are truly brain dead!
The fact that you can shop anywhere else and this is not a joke! You can shop anywhere else and get better prices then you can there as an employee is beyond sad!
Corporate thinks they know everything but they are there and hired by Schwazze because they obviously failed at the job they had before deciding to work for this horrible company! 
Don’t ignore the 1 star rating on here it’s the blatant truth about this horrid company!
Good Luck to you on your job hunt because I’m sure this made you look elsewhere! 

As inventory specialist I would come in and make sure that the inventory in the kitchen was stocked and full... you double check all the tags and make sure none are wrong or sold out ( most are but you get in trouble for it even though it may not be communicated by the budtenders, or my leads missed it).. you 90% of the time will have a downed list that morning bc morning crew chose not to do along with what ever dabs went down that morning.. after doing all that you spend a lot of your day stickering product, and covering the kitchen ( which is not in the job description,  but your expect to do it as it's help) .. the hardest part of the job is not getting any recognition for the hard work you do... the culture at this dispensary is horrible and noone knows anything about cannabis very unfortunate 

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